Neat little BBC1 schedule here, although Dr Who has never faced Corrie on Christmas Day before. It faced Celebrity Millionaire in its first year (2005) and has gone head-to-head with Emmerdale every year since.

I'd be pretty certain it will be at 8pm like every other Monday


Did well in an unusual slot


You've missed out the late news, and I can't see the BBC scheduling it for as late as 2345 (this isn't ITV), and I can't see them having new programming finishing as late as midnight.


Fantastic news

Frozen Planet did ok, relatively speaking, but possibly it was dented by That's Britain! considering it had little in way of opposition. I think having I'm A Celebrity... against it last week has seen it's audience drop a bit. Grand Designs also did well but seems slightly on the low side. The football did as expected; unless Manchester United are playing many matches are simply filler at this stage so ITV1 will be hoping United don't do the unthinkable and faiul to qualify. Channel 5 will be desperately hoping that they drop into the Europa League - though Chelsea and Manchester City are tasty back ups.

My Christmas Predictions

BBC One
5.25 BBC News and Weather
5.35 The Gruffalo
6.05 EastEnders
6.45 Doctor Who
7.45 Strictly Come Dancing
8.45 EastEnders
9.25 The Royal Bodyguard
9.55 Absolutely Fabulous
10.55 BBC News and Weather
11.05 Michael McIntyre

ITV1
5.20 ITV News and Weather
5.30 Text Santa! Highlights (I can see ITV1 running this is primetime!)
6.30 You've Been Framed
7.00 Emmerdale
8.00 Coronation Street
9.00 Downton Abbey
11.00 ITV News
11.10 Film

The only thing is, will the two broadcasters accept a 15 minute soap clash?

Well they wouldn't need too - obviously if the BBC had that schedule ITV would bring theirs forward by 15 minutes.

I think ITV1 will want to try and work it so Downton clashes with The Royal Bodyguard rather than EastEnders - potentially sacrificing Coronation Street in the process. I think, if Downton is on Christmas Day, we'll see a lot of tooing and froing going on. So if anything I think ITV1 will shove the schedule back; even taking out ad breaks to ensure Downton finishes before 11pm.

ITV's Christmas idents to be based on these Text Santa animated characters.

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/thewor...CMP=ILC-SEARCH

http://www.lambie-nairn.com/news/cel...9s-text-santa/

An animated promo campaign for ITV's new charity initiative kicks off this weekend.

The first phase of it kicks off on 26 November, with a call to action featuring celebrities launching on 3 December. The animated characters will also take over ITV idents from 10 December.

Lambie-Nairn developed the brand identity for the campaign, both on and off air.

Odd looking things. The one on the left looks like a Pac-Man ghoul.

BBC winning back the rights to the World Athletic Championships for 2015 and 2017 I suspect means that Channel 4 won't be throwing a huge budget into their coverage of Moscow 2013. However, if they're looking for a presenter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj9y9ApEkG0

if EastEnders does not clear 9 million (BBC 3 not included) tonight, there will be no justice in the world, it was a stunning episode, totally spell bounding, and the best of the year so far.

Im sure dan2008 will agree with me.

Dont really understand this Text Santa show, so im just going to use my default position, and say it sounds dreadful

Radio Times's Christmas edition to be available from Saturday 3rd December (depending on where you live).

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-...-december-2011

If only we had a Christmas TV Prediction thread...

It won't clear 9m with a 30 minute Emmerdale Farm clash.

One for Christmas and another for New Year?

But if they weren't able to charge full rates on Thanksgivings Eve why would they do it? They could argue no competition + all new originals = pretty decent ratings (even with deductions).

I'm not saying that I would do it, especially with a very serialised programme like Revenge, which is best suited to being week after week. The only reason X Factor was on last night was because it needs to get rid of people (2 this week, 2 next week).

well it should have done, Im willing to bet it Emmerdale was not 1/100th as good.

Hope it doesn't have Hugh Frigging Bonneville on the cover...

I wonder if BBC1 will do likewise and launch its idents on 10 December too?

I do hope they wait till SCD Final Saturday. That's when Christmas really starts.

Do we know what time Text Santa airs on Christmas Eve yet?

Well it was either that or have an issue from 24th December to 6th January, which would be slightly strange considering most people will be going back to work on 2nd January.

It'll be a festive drawing like every year. What's on TV etc will no doubt have EastEnders on the front. TV Times might have a Downton cover though.

It's funny hearing you getting annoyed at the thought of Downton Abbey being all over Christmas TV adverts. Remember David Tennant's last Doctor Who, you couldn't get more overkill than that, he was even in the idents for 3 weeks!

That was OTT, clearly.

I do however wonder how many thousand times we will see whatever super-sickly Downton trailer they come up between now and 9pm on 25th December.

I suspect it will appear in almost every ad break on ITV during December...

there is an easy way to avoid that.

Im at wotk so didnt see it but ive heard good things about it. some people that stuck with Emmer regret it they said. Enders had a few trends on twitter also.Emmerdale was just 2eps together

Tomorrow's Telegraph features Bruce and Tess on it's front page with the headline: "Why Strictly beats X Factor"

Sir Bruce says that The X Factor is losing viewers because of the 'scripted rows' between the judges.

oh sorry, didn't realise, I wont mention any spoilers. I hope you get to see it. PM me when you do.

and for the rest of the thread, what is this Text Santa show? I am pretty sure Santa does not want ITV viewers texting him on Christmas Eve night, given that he will be very busy giving out presenters elsewhere in the world.